Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I was under the impression that Windows users would often prefer
> software that requires “only” MinGW, as opposed to the more heavyweight
> Cygwin.  From that point of view a MinGW port seems to be useful,
> especially if Guile does part of the OS abstraction job that Cygwin
> does.

Yes, agreed now.  It was wrong of me to suggest that MinGW support might
not be necessary...

> I agree that portability tricks should primarily be directed to Gnulib.

Thanks,
       Neil